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Shot Away from its Companion, Giant Star Makes Waves

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The giant star Zeta Ophiuchi is having a "shocking" effect on the surrounding dust clouds in this infrared image from...

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Stars Reveal the Secrets of Looking Young

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Novel Nanoparticles for Easier Biomarker Detection

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These nanoparticles created by MIT engineers can act as synthetic biomarkers for disease. The particles (brown) are coated with peptides (...

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Synthetic and biological nanoparticles combined to produce new metamaterials

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Two different protein cages, cowpea chlorotic mottle virus (blue) and Pyrococcus furiosus ferritin (red), can be used to guide the assembly...

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Hubble's "Smoky" Shells

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NASA to Provide Commentary as Grail Moon Mission Ends

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This still image and animation shows the final flight path for NASA's twin Gravity Recovery and Interior...

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Dreidel-like dislocations lead to remarkable properties: Rice University theory predicts formation of conductive sub-nano ‘wires’ in two-dimensional materials

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Animated illustration show the precise arrangement of atoms in dislocations in two-dimensional molybdenum/sulfur. Dislocations happen when...

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UCLA engineers develop new energy-efficient computer memory using magnetic materials: MeRAM is up to 1,000 times more energy-efficient than current technologies

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MeRAM bit

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